Solved Virtualbox 4.1.12 & New Guest Additions

Hi All,


I've had Win CP 64-bit running happily under the previous version of Virtualbox. I updated to the latest release, and after a while I got a message (in the guest machine) saying something along the lines of "New Guest additions available - install now."

I now have a happy blue screen looking at me - I get Fish, black, white then blue...... any suggestions before I blast the VM out of existance & start again??



Regards

Robin

Ho Hum,

I set up a new VM - got that loaded ok - now need to resize the screen - the previous methodology doesn't work anymore in this version of Virtualbox. Plod on using the "help" function.

Robin

Wow!!

1808 x 1000? 1880 x 1000? 1920 x 1080.....phewee....

See - reading the instructions sometimes does help!

Regards

Robin

I was lucky. The guest addition update did not work. My vBox works and I am not going to change it.

Mine worked but I had to do it in safe mode otherwise I got a blue screen.

A piece of advice. Before installing a new version of guest additions take a snapshot. That way if anything goes wrong you can roll back with one click of the mouse in a few seconds. Beats creating a new VM hands down.

True indeed! Automatic Backups etc running on my main machines, but in a VM....oooops!! Off to take a snapshot of the new VM right now!

Yes indeed one often forgets with a VM, although a snapshot is not a backup, it is more akin to a system restore point.

4.1.12 looks good to me.

Try to fully / manually uninstall the previous additions and then reboot and install the new ones. There is a bug where the old additions don't fully uninstall when you update.

If there are still old files left:
Search and delete all vbox* (i'm talking about the older drivers vbox*.dll, vbox*.sys and vbox*.inf) stuff in system32 in the VM and also delete additions map in Program Files in the VM.
Then reboot/reinstall additions.

I would recommend the latest version but uninstall the WDDM driver again if you had a good experience without it.

Good luck
Hopachi

Hmmmm - took a snapshot and it blew the VM (Grahics all over theplkace - flashing, black etc) - went back to pre-snapshot and it's running ok.... Heigh-ho - as I'm not really using the VM (apart from keeping an eye out for a Contract Bridge app) I'll proceed with system restore points.

Update on this, version 4.1.14 updated and installed fine, with Win8 64bit, Ubuntu 10 & Raspi.

If they' ll release newer releases or beta versions, this is the place to look:

Index of /virtualbox/

All released versions are there.

4.1.16 is released.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

VirtualBox 4.1.16 (released 2012-05-22)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)
• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)
• VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution only; bug #9941)
• VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP guests in rare cases
• 3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash
• NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some circumstances (bug #10527)
• Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to 128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for Solaris and Windows hosts)
• EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)
• VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)
• Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some reason (bug #6189)
• Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible
• VBoxManage: fixed controlvm savestate if the VM is already paused
• Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3 (bug #10267)
• Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes
• Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages (bug #10418)
• Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute (bug #10581)
• Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)
• Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better to miss some features than providing a blank screen)
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12

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Cheers
Hopachi

when installing guest addition, my screen flickers on my screen resolution... it works good on lower resolution.. n i have it uninstalled to make my vm work properly.. don't know wt'z wrong.. ny help would be appreciated..
Thank You
Shon John Xander

djshonrock said:

when installing guest addition, my screen flickers on my screen resolution... it works good on lower resolution.. n i have it uninstalled to make my vm work properly.. don't know wt'z wrong.. ny help would be appreciated..
Thank You
Shon John Xander

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We need some extra info to help you:

-what VM is it (x86 or x64 and the OS)
-are you using graphic acceleration or not
-do you use VT-x

Maybe we should start a new thread since this one is fixed.

Regards
Hopachi

Yeah sure.. we'll do that.. here's the link: http://www.eightforums.com/virtualization/6372-vm-machine-trouble.html